053 before the holiday
As Meng Qi expected, in the annual comic TOP10 selection, Aquaman, who ranked third, was once again crazy and hacked. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the nature of the sunspots has slowly changed, and before, there may have been some genuine trolls in the sunspots, but now, everyone is basically aiming at the "shameful cuteness" of the Sea King.
Therefore, although Aquaman's ability has been complained about a lot, and his character style is constantly despised, it still can't stop his rising popularity.
As Meng Qi said: Hate is deep and love is deep......
In short, black powder.
Of course, comic book lovers aren't just talking about Aquaman, and other superheroes created by Frank Miller are also hotly debated.
"Superman deserves to be the first to win!"
"Although I admit that Superman is the first, but do you have my little Twinkle fast? Frank Miller, do you dare to make them ...... the other?"
"Flat-chested, Brain Cave Man should be in the top five!"
"Don't worry about Green Lantern upstairs, he can use the Lantern Ring to get himself a gold medal, as much as he wants...... Hahaha......"
"Special instructions! Martian Manhunter is ranked outside the top 10 because other superheroes are too strong, not because "Martian Manhunter" is not good-looking! ”
""Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is also on the list, but it is said that it is about to end, and I am suddenly reluctant to ......"
The constant appearance of comments such as these also shows the reader's support and love for Frank Miller's work from another perspective.
Meng Qi didn't pay too much attention to these comments, just briefly communicated with netizens on Twitter, and continued to devote himself to what he wanted to do.
He had to get the next two months in place by next week, because the University of San Antonio was on vacation.
said that it was a holiday, but in fact, it was also for their group of international students.
The University of San Antonio operates on a three-semester system, with the first semester generally starting in early September, closing in mid-December before Christmas, and the second semester not beginning until early January, and the third semester generally starting in early May and ending in August.
However, considering the cultural background of this group of exchange students from China, if they start and vacation like ordinary students, they will inevitably miss the most important festival of the Chinese people every year - the Spring Festival, so the University of San Antonio has adjusted the study time of exchange students in a very humane way, postponing their first semester vacation time to January 25, and setting the holiday time after the Lantern Festival.
In fact, at this time, college students in the United States have already started their second semester of study.
Now that the holiday is less than ten days away, Meng Qi has to settle some things, so he rarely gathered the comic creators for a meeting and arranged things.
The inaugural issue of Superman: The Legend is scheduled to be released at the end of January, along with an experimental monthly magazine called Shop Window.
During this time period, Meng Qi just returned to Huaxia.
However, he was more comfortable with the combination of Ned Barty and David Lane, and he had seen the drawings before, and in every respect, they were of a certain level.
Although there is still a certain gap with his own "Superman", it should be able to satisfy the appetite of readers.
As for "Window", Meng Qi originally wanted to put Ultraman, that is, the Superman on Earth in the DC Comics universe No. 3, into this magazine.
But Earth Three is a world where good and evil are reversed, and all superheroes, including Superman, have become supervillains in this world, and have formed a crime group, Crime Syndicate, and Superman's old rival Lex Luthor has become the only hero in this world.
It is not difficult to imagine that the story of Earth 3 will cause huge and even bad repercussions.
After all, Superman is the hero of the American Federation......
The national hero has suddenly become a villain, even if it is a parallel world, I'm afraid it's hard to accept, right?
Considering the possible adverse effects of this subversive setting, and the fact that he was not in the U.S. Federation and it was difficult to control the situation, Meng Qi finally decided to give up after careful consideration.
As a result, the magazine is full of original heroes from manga artists and screenwriters.
In addition, according to the original plan, "The Flash", "Green Lantern", "Martian Manhunter" and "Aquaman" are all origin stories with a length of 8 episodes, and at the rate of one issue a week, these comics should be finished soon after Meng Qi takes the holiday.
In order not to break the comics, Meng Qi still adopted the same approach as "Superman", writing the synopsis of the story by himself, the screenwriter writing the plot and dialogue, and the cartoonist drawing it.
Only this time, the people under Meng Qi were obviously much more mature, so he quickly identified a suitable candidate.
As for Aquaman, I don't know what Nick Yang thinks about this tease, so he actually took the initiative to grab it.
Although these things have been done, there are not enough comic talents, but fortunately, Su Nan is still very prescient about this kind of thing, and has already arranged recruitment and interviews, just waiting for Meng Qi to make a final decision.
The number of people who came in this time was almost twice as many as Ned Barty's time, but Meng Qi didn't give the newcomers a dismount this time, and this kind of thing was naturally left to the old birds like David Lane to do.
Well...... Of course, the fun of training newcomers is definitely indispensable to Nick Young......
However, the rookies will probably feel schizophrenic when facing the funny Nick Young and the cold and serious David Lane, right?
In the end, Meng Qi's two new comics have also completed the line draft, one of which he is still ready to hand over to his two colorists to complete the final steps, and the other one, which is also the one that Meng Qi values the most, he decided to bring back to Huaxia and use his free time to complete the follow-up work by himself.
In the face of such classics and subversive works, in order to maximize the quality and value of comics, he just wants every line, every color block, and every storyboard to be created by himself!
The arrangement during the holiday back to China was almost like this, although there were only a few things to do, but it still took Meng Qi a lot of energy, obviously, he preferred to sit in the studio and draw comics than deal with these things.
After the work was arranged, Meng Qi had other important things to do.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" is about to have a finale, and the Wara Brothers will definitely not let go of this gimmick, they decisively set the premiere date of the animated version of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" on the same day that the manga finale will be released, that is, Tuesday, January 22.
The Wara Brothers adopted such a strategy, and the NBO side was not to be outdone, and of course they also wanted to take this ride, although "Avatar Powers" has little to do with "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", but this is also the work of Frank Miller......
The old driver with a person is to bring ...... Bringing two people is also a brought......
However, because the two broadcasters have reached a contractual partnership, the NBO did not choose Tuesday, but set the premiere date of "Avatar" on Wednesday, January 23.
And in order to congratulate the end of "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and wish the two animations a big hit, they actually joined forces and held a drinking party on the weekend.
Meng Qi can be said to be one of the protagonists of this drinking party. Despite his reluctance to appear on such occasions, he had no choice but to bite the bullet.
However, for Meng Qi, who had never participated in such a social event as a drinking party before, it was really a big problem......
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